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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat Feb 28, 2015, 04:12 PM Feb 2015

GOPer (Rep. Devin Nunes) Slams 'Phony Conservatives' Who Tried To Defund DHS

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) is not happy with the Republicans who defied House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and refused to vote for a bill on Friday that did not address President Obama's executive actions on immigration and would have funded the Department of Homeland Security for three weeks.

"I prefer to be in the arena voting than trying to placate a small group of phony conservative Members who have no credible policy proposals and no political strategy to stop Obama's lawlessness," Nunes told National Journal in an interview published Saturday. "While conservative leaders are trying to move the ball up the field, these other Members sit in exotic places like basements of Mexican restaurants and upper levels of House office buildings, seemingly unaware that they can't advance conservatism by playing fantasy football with their voting cards."

Rep. Steve Womack (R-AR) also lamented to National Journal that the House Republican conference could not agree on the bill, putting Boehner in a tough spot.

"This has got to have an affect on him, personally, just psychologically. To have to go to the mat on these issues. He ran for it, he knows what the job entails, but we certainly made it pretty difficult on him when we seem to fight so much among ourselves," he said. "I hate it that our conference has so many issues, so many factions among itself, that we can't get our team together and all be singing off the same sheet of music."

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randys1

(16,286 posts)
1. Each time i hear one of these assholes refer to the Prez as lawless, I wanna punch em
Sat Feb 28, 2015, 04:14 PM
Feb 2015

it would hurt me more than it would them probably, but it would feel good

maybe i better stick with keyboard

Shrike47

(6,913 posts)
3. 'Obama's lawlessness' = things we Republicans don't agree with, although we lost the 2012 election.
Sat Feb 28, 2015, 04:21 PM
Feb 2015

I hates them.

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